On Wed, 18 Jun 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-patches wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2025, Radek Barton via Cygwin-patches wrote: > > > -#ifdef __x86_64__ > > /* Set stack pointer to new address. Set frame pointer to > > stack pointer and subtract 32 bytes for shadow space. */ > > +#if defined(__x86_64__) > > __asm__ ("\n\ > > movq %[ADDR], %%rsp \n\ > > movq %%rsp, %%rbp \n\ > > subq $32,%%rsp \n" > > : : [ADDR] "r" (stackaddr)); > > +#elif defined(__aarch64__) > > + __asm__ ("\n\ > > + mov fp, %[ADDR] \n\ > > + sub sp, fp, #32 \n" > > Is the 32-byte shadow space part of the aarch64 calling convention spec, > or is this just copying what x86_64 was doing? My impression is that this > space was part of the x86_64 calling convention.
The patch for pthread stack initialization dropped the 32-byte shadow space, and I believe this patch should as well.